A wildlife cull prompted by animal faeces on the greens of a suburban Tasmanian golf course has angered animal welfare advocates and some local residents.

Key points:

Launceston Golf Club has approval to cull native species "causing damage"

Wildlife rehabilitation carers and some local residents are against the move

The golf club has declined to comment

The Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment (DPIPWE) has granted the Launceston Golf Club a permit to cull species that have been "causing damage to the golf course", including ducks, possums, native hens and wallabies.

Launceston resident Sarah Bryan said she first heard of the cull after the golf club put letters in the mailboxes of homes near the green.

The letter informing residents of planned "population reduction" was dated April 29, but Ms Bryan said locals didn't receive them until May 1 — the day the cull was supposed to start.

"Instead of examining ways of working with those species of wildlife, which are in habitat stress and are being reduced to smaller and smaller in peri-urban areas, they're opting for a cheap, quick, and least effective method of managing populations," she said.

"If they're worried about poo on the ground, they can just pick that up."

Ms Rodger said the cull wouldn't fix the problem in the long term because animals would move in and fill the gap in the landscape.

"The killing isn't going to control what they perceive is their problem, because they've got all these animals coming out of the bush to replace the ones they're killing off, so it's going to be a perpetual cycle."